Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] [det] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At this time of year there was n't enough milk anywhere in the village to borrow for more than a few days . |
| 2 | The Collector , his mind too feverish to recollect for more than a moment what all this activity was about , became absorbed in the contemplation of this pariah dog . |
| 3 | One is certainly not enough , when you consider the number of cars and drivers who use this stretch of motorway each day.It 's unwise for people tol have to drive for more than an hour and a half without taking a break . |
| 4 | Arguments then ensued as to who allowed other speakers to continue for more than their allotted time . |
| 5 | It may be that like the other NCT groups people do not feel the need to attend for more than a few months ( ca n't stay a New Mum for ever ! ! ! ) and at the moment no one needs the MiE group I do not know and I would like to find out . |
| 6 | Erm no I 'd like just to go through that if I can . |
| 7 | But after a week of total failure to concentrate for more than a minute he had to acknowledge to himself that nothing was going right . |
| 8 | With apologies for not being a perfect speech , but without any apologies for the symptoms that I 'm suffering too , because you all need to know about that as well . |
| 9 | Jay had never known it to work for more than weeks . |
| 10 | But I mean , I do n't think you need to worry about that cos I think got round that when they when they converted up to . |
| 11 | I 'm sorry to write like this when you are so hard up yourself — Please do n't think I 'm bemoaning — but honestly this house is insupportable . |
| 12 | What moves me very deeply about primitive peoples is that they still attach an enormous importance to a certain kind of communication which we have lost ; and that is that they allow the being of the person they are with to communicate with more than words . |
| 13 | Well my feeling is that you know if yo if you 're car does n't run tinker with the carburettor and if it still is n't running right , tinker with something else , if you like , the fatal thing is to tinker with both because then you just do n't know what you 've got , and erm she 's been on , on this hormone replacement which is er er no big deal but , you know , hormones are |
| 14 | William Bellows , who was taken by Edmund Gosse to meet Hardy in June 1927 , reported Florence as saying : ‘ My husband used to write in this when sketching out the plots of his novels . |
| 15 | Does he agree that it ill behoves the Labour party to comment on that because Labour was against the channel tunnel at its inception ? |
| 16 | Well I would n't want to comment on that because I do n't have the information to er to set against anything Mr . |
| 17 | Do you want me to comment on that as we go through or |
| 18 | The function includes part of the competitive labour supply function , i.e. that segment of L s above and to the right of point B , but renders inoperative the remaining part , i.e. that segment of L s below and to the left of point B. Workers who are willing to work at less than the wage stipulated by trades unions ( w 1 in Figure 5.1 ) will be excluded from active participation in the labour market for as long as these powerful combinations maintain their stranglehold as monopoly suppliers of labour . |
| 19 | In particular I would like to know about your own background rather than having to guess at this while reading about a set of fictional characters . |
| 20 | While it is now thought that they are interested in offloading part or all of this holding , it seems that they are not prepared to sell for less than the purchasing price of £1.20 . |
| 21 | A portrait of a child by Luis Paret y Alcazar ( 1746–1799 ) which has remained in the same family since it was painted is expected to sell for more than Pta40 million ( £220,000 ; $429,000 ) . |
| 22 | I am aware too that , in spite of other similarities , no amount of relating will allow me to converse in more than a most elementary way with a chimpanzee . |
| 23 | It was due to open in less than a week . |
| 24 | Was it possible , after all , that Vologsky could be primed to defect in less than a month ? |
| 25 | To listen to this when the mind and body need to recover from effort is , to use a medical term , contra-indicated . |
| 26 | They were lovers now , and he preferred today to dwell on that than on the knottier problems . |
| 27 | She 'll never get her to go like that cos her legs are too stiff ! |
| 28 | ‘ It did n't seem to look like that when I had the fitting . ’ |
| 29 | B would fail to comply with this if , when asked for brake fluid , he knowingly passes A the oil , or when asked to tighten up the bolts on the steering column he merely pretends to do so Similarly , A would fail to observe the maxim of Quantity , the injunction to make one 's contribution in the right proportion , if " when B needs three bolts , he purposely passes him only one , or alternatively passes him 300 . |
| 30 | I have also mentioned our desire for cross-screen scrolling of KWIC and the ‘ more context ’ options ( screens £32 , £33 ) and he is to look into that as well . |